It’s Time To Talk About Biphobia
Biphobia is the prejudice against bisexual and pansexual individuals, and whilst this may exist amongst the heterosexuals it’s also very…
Acting Political: Celebrity Involvement In The Political Landscape
Amid the build up to the US mid-term elections, global megastar Taylor Swift released a political statement via Instagram to…
Period Poverty: The Untold Story Behind The Tax On Women’s Bodies
Jaffa cakes and edible cake decorations are just some of the products that are VAT free in Britain, and yet…
Should We Say No To Gendered Marketing?
From the moment we become aware of the concept of gender as children we automatically become conscious of the unwritten…
Homelessness in Brighton: An Olympic Disaster
In a 2011 article the BBC reported that homelessness had nearly doubled in the last year. But what sparked this…
BAME Representation: Darren Chetty and Lacking Representation in Literature
I came across Darren Chetty, a teacher and author based in London, when reading the 2016 Readers Choice Award…
Blood and Cups: Breaking the Period Taboo
Our Editor Billie-Jean Johnson talks taboos, tampons, and tackling world-wide stigma with some of the fierce women working to break…
STOPTOBER
A short letter on the reality of staying sober as a student, in recognition of STOPTOBER season Many of you…
Freshers’ Week from a second year perspective
Annually, the University of Sussex welcomes thousands of new students to our Falmer campus and every year the Student’s Union…
Why we should all embrace drag
Once an art form disregarded by many, 2018 bears witness to the continuous rise of drag as a legitimate, celebrated…
Student research happening at Sussex
(Image source: Flickr, Pixabay, Wikipedia) Another academic year is coming to a close and with it, the last edition of…
For students, where does work end and rest begin?
Print Production Editor Lucy Pegg examines the difficult balance between work and rest for students. In an environment that blurs…
Academic Armchair: Sexual Subjectivities within Neoliberalism
In this week’s edition of the Academic Armchair, we talked with former Sussex researcher and current graduate student in the…
Long Read: The Badger’s Tickell interview revisited amidst UCU strikes
In the wake of the UCU strikes, The Badger‘s former Editor, Freya Marshall Payne, revisits her 2016 interview with the…
Brexit and future tech
With a close eye trained on Brexit and contemporary Britain’s place in a fast-changing world, Science Co-Editor Luke Richards makes…
Long Read: Media and University have failed students on UCU strikes
There has been a lot of confusion and anger surrounding the strikes. The Tab has been dominant in forming the…
Academic Armchair- iObjectify: self- and other-objectification on Grindr
The Badger Features Team interviewed Sussex’s Yasin Koc about his work on the psychological factors behind Grindr. He posits that…
Women’s suffrage 100 years on: what’s changed?
As it reaches a century since the defining moments of women’s suffrage, Roisin McCormack looks into how much things have…
Oscars 2018: how progressive are Hollywood’s most prestigious awards?
In light of the recently revealed list of the 2018 Oscar Nominations, Features Editor Devin Thomas explores the extent to…
It’s finally time to abolish the monarchy
Features Editor Devin Thomas explores the view that the time has arrived for the movement to abolish the British monarchy…